fol. 44r
912
Henry Peirsly of Archerstowne in the parish of Thurls in the baroney of Ele ogerty & the county of Tipperary Esquire duly sworne & examined before vs by vertue etc . deposeth & sayth, that about the begining eighth of Nouemb: Jan: Anno Domini 1641 and since the beining of this present rebellion in Ireland, he lost was robbed & forceably despoyled of his goods & chattells to the seuerall values following vizt value of 3507 li. 3 s. Part consisting of a debt due by
Of sheepe Cowes Oxen bulls, & horses & swine to the value of seau’n hun dred thirteene pownds ten shillling Of ready mony to the summe o f six pounds thirteene shilling Of houshould-stuffe to the value of seau’n pownds Of Corne & hay in house & haggard to the value of threescore & ten pownds. Of Corne in ground to the value of threescore pownds. Also he sayth that he hath lost the benefit of his lease of Archerstowne aforesaid wh e are in he had a Lease of one & thirty years, worth Comunibus Annis fiffor ty pownds per annum aboue the landLords rent, wherin he conceiues himselfe damnifyed to the value of three hundred & fif threescore pownds. He also sayth that he hath also lost the benefit of anothr lease calld Liskeneene <in said county> wherein he had a tearme of thirty yeares yet to com e worth ere the beginning of th i s rebellion seau’n pownds per annum, wherein he conceuis hi mselfe damnifyed. seaunty pownds . Of debts to the also he sayth that by means of this rebellion he is dispossessed of anothr lease [ ] Ballecug, and TowerOdill in the county of Limrick wherein he had a tearme of about sixteene years yet to come, worth ere the beginning of this rebellion th se aunty f iue pownds per annum aboue the landLords rent, wherein he conceuis himselfe damnifyed in the value of four hundred & fifty pownds. also he hath lost in two houses whe reof one is in the citty of Lim rick, and the othr nerrat Raceele in county of Limerick worth ere the beginning of this rebellion nine pownds per annum declaro: hauing a tearme of six yeares ye t to come where in he is damnify ed in the value of twenty seaun p ownds. Also he sayth that he hat h lost in deb in the Kings County in the Prouince of Leinster the benefit of a Lease called Rothcumrorecumrow worth ere the beginning of this rebellion fourscore pownds per annum aboue the LandLords rent, hauing a tearme of fifty six years yet to come dam: herein seaun hundred pownds: also of anothr lease of belonging to Ballebritt worth thirty pownds per annum aboue the landLords rent, hauing a tearme of twenty years yet to come, damnif: heerin two hundred and ten pownds. also he sayth that he hath lost on the said farme in the Prouince of Leinster, in Cattle young & old & horses & sheepe to the value of six hundred and twelue pownds . also he hath lost at his farms there [&] in housholdstuffe worth sixty pownds in Corne & hey in house & haygard to the value of fifty pow nds <two hundred and nineteene powndes> Of Debts to the summe of eighty one one hundred fifty six pownds which ere thi s rebellion were esteemed, goode debts but now become desperate by one of the [debters] is an impouerisht Protestant, as Sir Arthur Blundell Knight, and the rest papists & rebells, as Peirce Curagh of the Citty of Limrick alderman: Leonerd Boyden of the citty of Cashill gen merchant, & th erefore this deponent cannot gett satusfaccion from them Donnough O Dowly and Loughlin o Dowly and Daniell Donnell O Dowly & Brien Kerry of Roscomrow, reb: yeoman: and and Tho John Tho: of Ballebrit aforesaid yeoman: and therefore this deponent cannot get any satisfaccion from them: the totall of his Losses amounts to the value of three thousand fiue hundred & seau’n pownde & three shilling He further sayth that he was robbed of his Liuing & dead goods in the county of Tipperary <B> by Theobald Pursell Baron of Loughma and James Archer of Gallabo[ ] gent: and his goods in Leinster were tak’n away by Teig O Magha han Dullaghany massepreist of Teng[ reish ] Kings county and Donnel o Dun Mullo y of the same gentleman with their followers; and the deponents owne